Rings or Radials

[ezzzekiel]

Nightmare for fault finding though

 

[ringer]

Are you sure all your downstairs sockets are on the ring? If your house was built in the 70s/80s/90s it may be a ring upstairs and spurs dropped for downstairs sockets.

 

[Ponty Massive]

Are you sure all your downstairs sockets are on the ring? If your house was built in the 70s/80s/90s it may be a ring upstairs and spurs dropped for downstairs sockets.

This is exactly how my house has been wired. Built circa 1975. I'll be needing to change my board soon, only has 4 ccts so will be going the RCBO route. Need to do a bit of testing first to see what circuit is where etc, then work out loads to split the ring.

 

[Paul505]

Are you sure all your downstairs sockets are on the ring? If your house was built in the 70s/80s/90s it may be a ring upstairs and spurs dropped for downstairs sockets.

Yes its all on 1x ring circuit with 1 or 2 spurs off ring which you can see have been installed by DIYers in the past.
What you have said about spurs dropped for skts i have seen years ago.
The house i live in was built approx 1980 which is a terraced 3 bed and was a council built property.

 

[Paul505]

Nightmare for fault finding though

Good idea....but i agree, plus it can be confusing on what skt is on what RFC if someone else was to look at it.